Post-war (1945-1980s)
Gaucher was sentenced to five years of prison for Collaborationism after the war. After that, he took up a career in journalism, working in Robert Hersant's L'Auto-Journal (Hersant had also been condemned for Collaborationism ), Les Ecrits de Paris, Est et Ouest and then as a reporter (grand reporter) for the far-right newspaper Minute from 1965 to 1984.
In the meantime, he joined Georges Albertini's anti-Communist networks through the BEPI and Est and Ouest. He participated in Pierre Poujade's movement. In the middle of the 1950s, he joined Jean-Louis Tixier-Vignancour's Rassemblement national, becoming its secretary general. From 1959 to 1960 he was an employee of the ANFAN (Association National des Français d’Afrique du Nord, National Association of Frenchmen from North Africa), and in 1961 secretary of the AEIPI.
He was one of the co-founders of the National Front (FN) in October 1972, becoming a member of its directing committee. But Gaucher then participated in the split in 1974 leading to the creation of the Parti des forces nouvelles (PFN), gathering radical activists who considered Jean-Marie Le Pen to be too "moderate." There, he collaborated to the magazine Initiative nationale. Gaucher was a member of the central committee of the PFN in 1974, and then of the political bureau in 1976. He was the PFN's representant during the Eurodroite meeting in Paris on 28 June 1978, which gathered the Italian MSI, the Spanish Fuerza Nueva and the Belgian Forces Nouvelles along with the PFN for the 1979 European elections. In 1979, he quit the PFN along with François Brigneau to rejoin the FN, at the request of Jean-Pierre Stirbois.
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